Monroe Township High School is a comprehensive four-year public high school located in Monroe Township, in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. It is part of the Monroe Township School District. The school serves students from Monroe Township and those from Jamesburg Borough who attend Monroe Township High School as part of a sending/receiving relationship with the Jamesburg Public Schools. The school's mascot is a falcon, the school colors are purple and gold, and the motto is "Excellence is Our Expectation". The original building of the school was erected in the 1970s, The Marasco Center for the Performing Arts was added to that building in the 1990s, and more classrooms were added in the early 2000s. Because of Monroe Township's increasing population, a new high school was built and was finished in time for the 2011-2012 school year, despite discovery of an old farmstead on the site. The previous high school building (across the street from the current one) is now used by the township's middle school, and what was called "Applegarth Middle School" is now an elementary school building. Monroe Township High School is now enforcing a stricter security policy with the addition of school IDs that are being regularly checked and cameras outside the school.
As of the 2010-11 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,655 students and 139.4 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 11.87:1. There were 77 students (4.7% of enrollment) eligible for free lunch and 37 (2.2% of students) eligible for reduced-cost lunch.
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